Further carnivorous highjinks from the great white north
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Canadian Bear Euthanized After Eating Murderer
Preston Sturges
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ZeFrank: An Invocation For Beginnings
Preston Sturges
Apparently ZeFrank was on an extended hiatus, but he’s back with a short but truly epic motivational video.
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“My Favorite Museum Exhibit”: The Leg Of General Daniel Sickles
Preston Sturges
The National Museum of Health and Medicine (formerly at Walter Reed in Maryland) has many bizarre artifacts of medical history, with an emphasis on public health and military medicine.
One of the objects on display is the leg of Union General Daniel Sickles. Sickles was famous for many things, including stalking and killing Francis Scott Key’s son for sleeping with his Sickles wife, then mounting the first successful temporary insanity defense in American history.
At the Battle of Gettysburg, Sickle disobeyed orders and abandoned Little Round Top to take the II Corp to an indefensible exposed position in “the Peach Orchard,” where his corp was destroyed. Sickles leg was nearly shot off by a cannonball, and he was carried from the field smoking a cigar.
Wikipedia picks up the story and provides a photo:
Sickles had recent knowledge of a new directive from the Army Surgeon General to collect and forward “specimens of morbid anatomy … together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed” to the newly founded Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C. He preserved the bones from his leg and donated them to the museum in a small coffin-shaped box, along with a visiting card marked, “With the compliments of Major General D.E.S.” For several years thereafter, he reportedly visited the limb on the anniversary of the amputation. The museum, now known as the National Museum of Health and Medicine, features the artifact on display still today.View Link [en.wikipedia.org]